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4135-4144

  • Amongst these sources (authorities) there is no dispute, such as there is in (the case of) knowledge based on opinions. 4135
  • یک خلافی نی میان این عیون  ** آنچنان که هست در علم ظنون 
  • That (knowledge based on opinion) is (like) searching (for the direction of the Ka‘ba) in the dark night, while this (mystic knowledge) is (like) the presence of the Ka‘ba and midday.
  • آن تحری آمد اندر لیل تار  ** وین حضور کعبه و وسط نهار 
  • Arise, O (thou who resemblest) Nimrod, and seek wings from (holy) personages: thou wilt not get any ladder from these vultures.
  • خیز ای نمرود پر جوی از کسان  ** نردبانی نایدت زین کرکسان 
  • The vulture is the particular (discursive) reason, O poor (-spirited) one: its wings are connected with the eating of carrion;
  • عقل جزوی کرکس آمد ای مقل  ** پر او با جیفه‌خواری متصل 
  • (But) the reason of the Abdál (exalted saints) is like the wings of Gabriel: it soars, mile by mile, up to the shade of the lote-tree (in Paradise).
  • عقل ابدالان چو پر جبرئیل  ** می‌پرد تا ظل سدره میل میل 
  • (It says), “I am a royal falcon, I am fair and auspicious, I have nothing to do with carrion: I am not a vulture. 4140
  • باز سلطانم گشم نیکوپیم  ** فارغ از مردارم و کرکس نیم 
  • Abandon the vulture, for I will be thy helper: a wing of mine is better for thee than a hundred vultures.”
  • ترک کرکس کن که من باشم کست  ** یک پر من بهتر از صد کرکست 
  • How long wilt thou gallop blindly? For (learning) a trade and business one needs a master.
  • چند بر عمیا دوانی اسپ را  ** باید استا پیشه را و کسپ را 
  • Do not disgrace thyself in the capital of China: seek a sage and do not separate thyself from him.
  • خویشتن رسوا مکن در شهر چین  ** عاقلی جو خویش از وی در مچین 
  • Hark, whatever the Plato of the age bids thee do, give up thy self-will and act in accordance with that (counsel).
  • آن چه گوید آن فلاطون زمان  ** هین هوا بگار و رو بر وفق آن